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Book 1. (3 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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3	52	"You must learn," Torm had said matter-of-factly, "the history and legends of Gor, its geography and economics, its social structures and customs, such as the caste system and clan groups, the right of placing the Home Stone, the Places of Sanctuary, when quarter is and is not permitted in war, and ...	10
3	71	Perhaps this was to discourage them from exploration or to develop in them a habit of relying on common-sense prejudices—something of a social control device.	10
17	48	Ubars have always employed the Initiates as tools, some of the boldest even contending that the social function of the Initiates is to keep the lower castes contented with their servile lot.	10

Book 2. (3 results) Outlaw of Gor

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9	87	In the light it was difficult to determine their caste, for they all wore the gray robes of Tharna and only a band of color on the shoulder indicated their station in the social fabric.	10
12	76	He has his role to play in the social structure, celebrating battles and histories, singing of heroes and cities, but also he is expected to sing of living, and of love and joy, not merely of arms and glory; and, too, it is his function to remind the Goreans from time to time of loneliness and death...	10
22	169	Accordingly, gradually exploiting, perhaps unconsciously, the opportunities afforded by the training of children and the affections of their men, the women of Tharna improved their position considerably over the generations, also adding to their social power the economic largesse of various funds an...	10

Book 3. (3 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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10	2	What in the passageways I had taken to be the scent of Priest-Kings had actually been the residue of odor-signals which Priest-Kings, like certain social insects of our world, use in communicating with one another.	10
15	141	"Basic information, as you might expect, pertaining to language, mathematics, and the sciences, but he is also being taught the history and literature of Priest-Kings, Nest mores, social customs; mechanical, agricultural, and husbanding procedures, and other types of information".	10
27	104	The special Gur used on the Feast of Tola is, in the ancient fashion, kept for weeks in the social stomachs of specially chosen Priest-Kings to mellow and reach the exact flavor and consistency desired, which Priest-Kings are then spoken of as retaining Gur.	10

Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor

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10	212	The Courage Scar thus has its social and economic, as well as its martial, import.	10

Book 5. (3 results) Assassin of Gor

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5	252	Kusk and I discussed various matters then for about an Ahn, primarily having to do with the extent to which the surveillance and control devices of the Nest had been restored since the Nest War, the increasing role of humans in the Nest, and the difficulties of working out a set of social arrangemen...	10
5	512	Elizabeth, besides speaking boldly out on a large number of delicate civic, social and political issues, usually not regarded as the province of the fairer sex, categorically refused to wear the cumbersome Robes of Concealment traditionally expected of the free woman.	10
11	325	The male of Earth is conditioned to be more timid, vacillating and repressed than the males of Gor; to be subject, to achieve social controls, to guilts and anxieties that would be as incomprehensible to the Gorean male as a guilt over having spoken to one's father-in-law's sister would be to most o...	10

Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor

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10	175	Beyond this, lastly, it might be mentioned that Gorean society, on the whole, tends to be tradition bound, and that there is little questioning of the wisdom of one's fathers; in such a society individuals usually have an identity satisfactory to themselves, and a place in which they feel comfortabl...	10

Book 7. (1 results) Captive of Gor

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7	413	For the first time in my life I suddenly understood, kneeling in the grass in a Gorean field, the thundering, devastating realities of social institutions.	10

Book 8. (2 results) Hunters of Gor

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12	14	Many people are unaware of such groups, for they are seldom identifiable save through lines of social relationships and connections.	10
16	47	Not only do earrings enhance a woman's beauty, but they speak openly to all, both men and women, regardless of social pressures and repercussions, of the pride and pleasure she takes in her womanhood.	10

Book 9. (2 results) Marauders of Gor

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9	421	Technology and social structures, following their own dynamics, integral to their development and expansion, have left behind the pitiful, rational animals who are their builders and their victims.	10
13	23	The line, so to speak, imaginary to be sure, but definitely felt as a social reality, dividing those above from those below the salt, was uniformly "drawn" across the width of the hall.	10

Book 10. (6 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1	81	The basic characteristic expected of a Gorean woman is, interestingly, femaleness; this is, I note, certainly not the basic characteristic requested of an Earth woman; indeed, femaleness in a woman of Earth, as I recalled, was societally discouraged, it complicating the politically expedient neuterl...	10
1	763	The social bond of the Priest-Kings is Nest Trust.	10
2	157	Though they feel their mark intensely physically, it is felt, interestingly, even more intensely, more profoundly, psychologically; not unoften it, in itself, radically transforms their self-images, their personalities; they are then only slaves, not permitted their own wills, rightless, at the bidd...	10
4	172	In virtue of historical factors, social, institutional and technological, having to do with the development of a given world, the male, from the cradle, is programmed with antimasculine values, taught to distrust his instincts, to hate and fear them, and, ideally, to revel in his demasculinization.	10
10	379	The dominant male is thus selected for in mate competition; the undominant male tends, statistically, to lose out to his stronger, more intelligent foe; correspondingly, evolution selected for the female who responds to the dominant male; she who fled such men either mated with weaker men, her child...	10
11	316	I am not clear on the historical roots of this unusual social institution but it does tend, in its practice, to pacify great sections of the Tahari.	10

Book 11. (8 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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3	80	I was a girl raised in a culture predicated on the denial of primate biological realities, a girl from a world in which hypothetically cogent animals denied, denounced and hysterically strove to suppress their own animality, a world in whose social insanity even sexuality had now come to be politica...	10
3	482	Yet the most profound consequences of the brand seem to be less social than intensely individual, personal and psychological; the brand, almost instantaneously, transforms the deepest consciousness of a girl; I resolved to fight these feelings, to keep my personhood, even wearing a brand.	10
4	1033	It was not the freedom of convention I then felt but the freedom of nature, not the freedom to be what I was not, which had been prescribed to me, but the freedom rather to be what I was, which, for complex social and historical reasons, had been long denied to me; it was not the freedom of politica...	10
6	61	The major difference in me, perhaps, however, was not behavioral, social or cultural, but biological.	10
7	73	Their efficiency and convenience mandates their use, regardless of the legal or social status of the girl on whom they are placed.	10
9	977	My femaleness had been suppressed on Earth, first by my own conditioning, the confused product of centuries of intellectual and social pathology, and, secondly, by the set of societal institutions in which I had grown up and existed, rather than lived, institutions to which sexuality was irrelevant,...	10
12	69	The distant menace of the master's displeasure has its influence and effect, naturally, on the social arrangements of the kennels.	10
27	359	How precious and glorious it is, she learns, to be a woman! And how joyfully and wondrously different it is from a man! At last she becomes true to herself and in this truth she rids herself of miseries, anxieties, conflicts, and fears; she is no longer a politically engineered social artifact, but ...	10

Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor

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4	69	I remembered that one of the Earth girls had been rich, the dark-haired girl; the other, the blonde, I supposed had been middle class, perhaps upper middle class; I did not know; at any rate, whatever they might have been, that was now behind them, a world away; social distinctions no longer divided...	10
12	145	The smallness of the groups provides a powerful social control.	10
21	399	Every modality of her life contributes to her heat, her legal and social status, her beauty, her clothing, if permitted such, her postures and movements, her collar, everything.	10
31	107	"The Kur is not a social animal?" I asked.	10
31	108	"It is a social animal," it said.	10
31	109	"But it is not as social as the human".	10
31	160	"How is it that an animal without strong social instincts can be concerned with glory?" I asked.	10

Book 13. (2 results) Explorers of Gor

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32	479	In one context, for example, as in the current context, the expression 'girl' is beautifully appropriate, its use being justified not only by descriptive accuracy, a concern with physiological veridicality, so to speak, but by social aptness, institutional relevance, instructional utility, and such.	10
32	1018	Such communities, emerging upon the ruins, might provide a nucleus for regeneration, a sounder, more biological regeneration of a social structure, one not antithetical to the nature of human beings".	10

Book 14. (12 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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4	212	"Only there, except for children who can be, and often are, physically abused, the whips are social and verbal".	10
4	241	Between these two madnesses is a variety of more dangerous antisexisms, more pernicious because subtler, recrudescent Puritanisms masking themselves under the garbage of trigger rhetorics, the usage of such expressions as 'persons' and such, designed to suppress thought and enforce social conformity...	10
4	284	"Earthlings," she said, "are manipulated organisms, helpless in the flow of social forces, slobbering to slogans and rhetoric.	10
4	336	Years of careful conditioning and training, and a pervasive social and cultural milieu, had taught me what my true self was.	10
5	206	Can you not see that you have been conditioned into a morality of weakness, an invention of the weak to undermine and inhibit the strong? Is not the social utility of such a device, so congenial to the fears of the small and weak, obvious? Can you not see that a morality designed to cripple and thwa...	10
10	42	Frightened though I was, I was pleased, in the lengthy process of the bath, which tends for Goreans to be a pleasant experience, and is often a social one, at the public baths, to rid myself of the stink of the pens.	10
14	140	I had given her much pleasure but she, a woman of lofty position, of high social station, rich and free, had never let me hold her.	10
16	30	Caste is important to the Gorean in ways that are difficult to make clear to one whose social structures do not include the relationships of caste.	10
16	53	Among other things it reduces competitive chaos, social and economic, and prevents the draining of intelligence and ambition into a small number of envied, prestigious occupations.	10
17	165	Rhetoric, conditioning and social controls kept them in their place.	10
27	114	It has proven to be an especially viable social institution, contributing to the stability and practicality of society, and it is honored in mores and sanctioned in law.	10
27	126	In passing, of course, one notes, as we did not earlier, that they also, obviously, identify her as a slave, and thus, in their way, act as an additional bond on her and, of course, smooth over social interactions, as it would not do at all for slaves and free women to be in any way confused.	10

Book 15. (4 results) Rogue of Gor

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4	473	These are, of course, obvious and practical skills, simply called for and to be expected, in a social milieu of the nature of Gorean society.	10
9	157	I remembered her briefly, wildly, uncontrollably, from the university, from the halls, from the campus, in the severe, pseudomale garments prescribed for her sex by unfeminine women, who arrogated to themselves the setting of ugly, self-serving, hateful, desexualizing fashions, enforcing their decre...	10
11	359	This may be accomplished by conditioning programs, obedient to their own antecedents and developing in accord with their own histories and social dynamics.	10
22	120	She had gone about her business, and studies, and such, on Earth, trying so seriously to conform to political and social pressures, fearing not to, being anxious to dress as required, to think as required, to feel as required, trying fearfully to please others who regarded her softness and femininit...	10

Book 16. (5 results) Guardsman of Gor

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8	312	It is clearly founded on, and expressive of, the order of nature, but what a wonder has civilization wrought here, elevating and transforming what is in effect a genetically coded biological datum, male dominance and female submission, into a complex, historically developed institution, with its hun...	10
17	136	Would not such a confession have called for incredible courage on Earth; indeed, might it not have been harrowingly calamitous in its social consequences.	10
19	377	The slave girl, it might be mentioned, in connection with the "releasing effects" of the collar, is relieved of many social pressures to which the free woman, because of her freedom, must remain subject.	10
19	561	It is not impossible that slavery may again become a widespread and significant component in social fabrics, even in those of technological societies.	10
19	916	These things being as they are, the translation of a Gorean woman of high caste to the collar is likely to be in its way as grievous, or more grievous, a social dislocation in status for her as the reduction of an Earth woman, who has never even considered such a fate for herself, to the collar.	10

Book 17. (16 results) Savages of Gor

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1	675	Logical, and terrible, they would not be likely to find the fallacy of the single virtue, the hypothesis of social reductivism, alluring.	10
1	1076	In particular, it tends, on the whole, to arrange social hierarchies in such a way that the society is oriented toward aggressiveness and warfare, features which tend to protect and preserve, in an almost natural harmony and balance, delicate relationships between food supplies, territories and popu...	10
1	1304	Our institutions are, thus, less dishonest and hypocritical than those of groups which pretend to deny the fundamental nature of social order.	10
3	74	The sludge of Puritanism, with its latent social power, bequeathed from one generation to the next, can serve unaccustomed masters.	10
6	19	It serves a function as well, however, as do many such towns, as a social and commercial center for many outlying farms and ranches.	10
13	243	"Such names are not unusual in the social stratum which once was mine," she said.	10
13	263	"Master?" "Your aunt, doubtless, did not consider how good you might be beyond such trivial social conveniences and applications, how good you might be in an honest, straightforward slave collar".	10
13	280	"In family barterings," I said, "barterings concerned with alliances to consolidate or improve social position, the woman's utility, as I understand it, is substantially realized with the successful completion of the bartering process, when she is, in effect, exchanged for status and power.	10
13	507	I would address them, and naturally, it seemed, and despite my superiority of social position, as 'Sir'.	10
13	515	I am sure she received much pleasure from putting me to such labors, ordering me about, and so on, despite the difference in our social strata, a difference certainly not to her advantage.	10
13	877	As they are intelligent, they are likely to be sooner in touch with their deepest nature and needs than a less intelligent woman, who is likely to be more a victim of social engineering, and more mired in a conditioned image alien to her deeper self.	10
13	1691	And thus was the former Miss Millicent Aubrey-Welles, once of Earth, once a debutante, once a lesser scion of position and station, of wealth and power, once an element ensconced within an economic and social elite, once a lovely occupant of society's highest tiers, now a property on a beautiful, sa...	10
15	158	Such societies, too, it might be noted, are useful in various social ways.	10
17	443	As some define it, it is a function of the social conventions obtaining at a given time.	10
17	446	Another approach might be to envision a world compatible with reality and congenial to human nature, a world in which science, even social science, might be free, a world in which truth would not be against the law, a world designed not for the crippling, distortion and torture of humanity but for i...	10
17	577	"If the norms of sanity are social norms," I said, "by definition, the norm is sane".	10

Book 18. (6 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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14	169	"True persons," which is a euphemism for conformists to the social norms, are supposed to be "above sex," or, at least, to recognize its "relative unimportance," or to understand that it may be acceptable, if at all, only at some time, or in some "place," or other, which is never clarified.	10
30	58	The real role of such belief systems, thus, is not to tell people about the world, for they are actually irrelevant to the world, but to supply them with psychological and social benefits.	10
37	262	Its relative scarcity, presumably, is a function not of repression, which does not exist, but of neglect or disinterest, a function of the nature, and naturalness, of the Gorean milieu, the innocent, unabashed complexion and constitution of its culture, its sensual and biological openness, frankness...	10
40	27	One advantage of such lodges, and of communal living, generally, is that it makes it easier to impose social controls on the members of the community.	10
40	881	"I did not think that your visit here was one of a purely social nature," he said.	10
56	48	As the appearance of kaiila in the Barrens, long ago, had wrought a social and cultural revolution among the tribes, so, too, I suspected, now might the tarn.	10

Book 19. (3 results) Kajira of Gor

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36	857	For political and social reasons societies and cultures have often conspired, by means of a variety of devices, to suppress the natural woman, to use the woman herself to imprison her own being, to instill in her an insidious inertness, or frigidity, to inculcate in her a guilt concerning, and a sus...	10
36	864	But, too, there is little doubt that once these social conventions, cultural encrustations, and imprisonments, are shattered, are at last vanquished and torn away, she is then ready to feel, and be.	10
36	890	There are two major societal procedures for managing her, one is to defeminize her, to psychologically castrate her, so to speak, to condition her into inertness and frigidity, to utilize techniques of social engineering to turn her into her own jailer, with consequent deprivation, frustration and d...	10

Book 20. (2 results) Players of Gor

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2	1597	I wondered if Gorean men could even conceive of a world where sexuality was supposedly shameful, where sex and guilt were pathologically intermingled, where children were raised to suspect and fear their own bodies, where the most natural urges and impulses of human beings were denounced, where guil...	10
6	92	Social pressures, too, in various ways, contribute to the same end.	10

Book 21. (2 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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4	31	When there is weakness or chaos in an area, and when the ordinary structures of social order are disrupted, with the concurrent disorganization, failures of responsibility, and discipline, it is natural for folks like the Alars to appear.	10
24	476	You have now discovered your antecedents and connections, so to speak, and your exact place, or, perhaps better put, your exact lack of a place, in civil and social relationships".	10

Book 22. (6 results) Dancer of Gor

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6	448	Social chasms separated us, social chasms unbridgeable except by the brand and collar.	10
10	71	Indeed, considering the social and political deserts in which we were sexually starved, it would not have surprised me in the least, if we, once it became clear to us, to our joy, that we now had no culturally prescribed alternatives to being women, that we were now no longer subjected to social pre...	10
6	337	In this culture it seemed that slavery, bondage such as mine, at least, was an essential ingredient, that it was unquestioned, or, if it had been questioned, that the questions had been resolved long ago, and in favor of the collar, that it was a matter of tradition, perhaps a tradition of thousands...	10
10	542	It symbolizes in the distance, as well as in the differential in height, the social inferiority of the slave to the master.	10
17	42	The baths in many Gorean towns are important social centers.	10
33	24	I could not deny that I loved bonds, both of a physical and social sort, those tangible evidences of my womanhood, and my place in nature.	10

Book 23. (6 results) Renegades of Gor

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1	594	Slavery institutionalizes, in an organized, social, civilized context, the natural biological relationship between men and women.	10
11	237	Too, many would fear in it the destruction of social openness, of pluralism and freedom, as it now exists on Gor".	10
21	829	One common difference between rape on Earth and rape on Gor is that rape on Earth is usually over with quickly, and is unlikely to be succeeded by social and legal consequences to the enjoyed woman, whereas rape on Gor may prove to be, and often is, a prelude to enslavement.	10
21	950	After the constraints and lies of an environment warped politically to subserve unnatural interests and goals they encounter for the first time in their lives men who are quite different from most of the men they have been familiar with, men who have not been culturally tamed, men who have not been ...	10
21	1288	Women are marvelously and intensely social, and love to speak.	10
23	101	Propaganda and conditioning are powerful tools of social control, natural or unnatural, deviant or otherwise.	10

Book 24. (3 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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12	250	To be sure, they are sometimes of economic, political or social interest to ambitious men, men interested in using them to improve their fortunes, further their careers, and so on.	10
12	252	The slave, of course, like the sleen or verr, a mere domestic animal, like them, is seldom in a position to improve, say, a fellow's social connections.	10
37	173	The anthropological point is simply one of fact, which, one supposes, is worth noting, but does not require extensive comment, namely, freedom, particularly of the social and political sort, however estimable it may be, is not a necessary condition for human happiness; two other factors are more imp...	10

Book 25. (6 results) Magicians of Gor

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2	375	For example, there are not only such obvious things as the brand and collar, and the distinctive garbing of the slave, or the lack of garbing, but, far more significantly, the extreme closeness of the society, with its scrutiny of strangers, and the general nature of an uncompromising culture, with ...	10
3	690	And I thought then, too, sadly, of the women of Earth, so many of them so confused, so miserable, so unhappy, women not knowing what they were, or what they might be, women trapped in a maze of ultimately barren artifices, women subjected to inconsistent directives and standards, women subjected to ...	10
10	394	She is not encumbered by robes and veils, and a thousand social constraints.	10
12	25	It has erotic significance, or symbolism, in two ways, first, it expresses the social and cultural relations in which the master and slave stand, that she is his property, sexual and otherwise, and that he may do with her what he wishes, for he is master, and, second, perhaps more profoundly, it exp...	10
13	156	Several weeks ago in Ar there had been some hints of an attempt on the part of the Ubarate, as a social-control procedure, to facilitate its governance, a venture doubtless emanating from Cos, which had reason to fear an alert, healthy foe, to reduce the vitality and virility of the men of Ar, to fu...	10
18	309	"This is a social visit?" he asked.	10

Book 26. (9 results) Witness of Gor

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2	126	Thusly, that they produced human pain and social chaos, with all the miseries attendant thereupon, would not be seen as an objection to them but rather as the predictable result of their excellence in the light of their objectives.	10
7	134	Merchant practice, and social custom, tend to standardize such things.	10
7	815	Such articulations, of course, so healthy with respect to maintaining social stability, constitute an institutional counterpart to the richnesses of difference in an articulated, ordered, holistic nature.	10
11	1622	Similarly, there are entire groups of people, as I understand it, barbarians, savages, and such, whose social arrangements are not based on caste.	10
13	578	It helped to impress upon me, as did a thousand other considerations, physical and social, the hopelessness of escape for a female slave.	10
14	173	On this world, this basic truth has been recognized, and, in a portion of the social sphere, institutionalized".	10
19	264	Perhaps they, who might otherwise have been dismissed as pathetic misfits, as simple failures in nature, had managed to construct a social niche for themselves, perhaps by inventing and providing a service.	10
19	575	In the end, though this is sometimes obscured by social arrangements, it is the men who are the masters.	10
34	153	But, alas, some men, I fear, purchase girls largely for self-regarding, social reasons, for example, to impress others with their wealth, good fortune, or taste.	10

Book 27. (28 results) Prize of Gor

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2	82	She insisted on the importance of social artifacts, for example that men and women were not natural beings, but mere social artifacts, the manufactured products of culture and conditioning, that that was all.	10
2	168	Perhaps she had met such gazes before from such as the older woman, gazes, and stares, and such, perhaps of envy, hatred, and hostility, the cold, fixed gazes and stares of women whose youth and beauty were behind them, and who seemed to wish to do little now but resent and castigate, and scorn, the...	10
4	484	Surely she had gone too far! Was she feminine? She must not be feminine! Surely it would be wrong for her to be such, to be so female, so simply, so radically, so vulnerably female! Was such not a mere social artifact? But what if it were not a mere social artifact? What if it were something very di...	10
26	186	The natural human female, Ellen supposed, is not a social artifact, despite what she had been taught to mindlessly repeat, not a construct of social engineers who neither understand her nor care for her, creatures interested ultimately only in their own power and influence; she is not, ideally, a tw...	10
2	83	He had then asked for an explanation, or speculation, as to why all cultures, without exception, had designed their social artifacts in exactly such a way as to produce the various constants at issue.	10
2	86	Lastly, she had insisted, in anger and confusion, on fashionable postmodernistic analyses, on the alleged social aspect of, and role of, "truth," as a weapon of ideological warfare, on the right of the scholar activist to alter, conceal, suppress, invent and falsify in order to comply with political...	10
6	65	They also gave her some understanding of the social arrangements common in what were called the "high cities," in particular, the caste system, and the existence of codes of honor, and such, apparently taken seriously on this world.	10
6	66	They did not, incidentally, explain to her one aspect of the social structure, or perhaps better, of the culture, in which she would have been almost certain to have taken a great interest, that condition, or status, which was irremediably hers on this world, that category, so to speak, to which she...	10
9	44	Rank, distance and hierarchy are ingredient in Gorean social arrangements.	10
9	45	The intricate stratification of society tends to produce social stability.	10
9	48	In Gorean society, with its emphasis on locality and neighborhood, with its diverse Home Stones, each with its own history and traditions, with its many castes and subcastes, each with its acknowledged privileges and rights, and obligations, respected by all, political upheavals, social disruptions,...	10
9	139	Tell us all about men and women, and social artifacts, and roles, and such things, how conventional everything is, and political and capricious, and how the human species, alone of all the other species, has no nature, and how genetics is meaningless, and biology false, and endocrinology irrelevant,...	10
11	184	Certainly in her case, it was easy to note, indeed, one had but to look in the mirror, that her master had not seen fit to exempt her from that apparently optional mercantile and social convenience, from bearing, it burned nicely into her thigh, that lovely, small, simple token of her condition.	10
11	316	Certainly you can understand how it might alleviate many social problems, one among many being that of expanding, uncontrolled populations intent on transforming a once verdant, lovely planet into arid, sterile ecological garbage.	10
11	317	To be sure, there are many ways of solving social problems, and Earth is clearly moving to imperialistic centralization, to statism, collectivism and authoritarianism, in which, to control matters, human beings will become in fact, if not in name, slaves of the state.	10
12	325	To speak as though absolute equality, save doubtless in merit, or value, each marvelous in their own very different way, could exist between absolute unequals, things as diverse as a male and a female, was at best an idle social ritual, and, at worst, a pathological lie which, if taken seriously, if...	10
12	327	She did know enough sociology, and enough history, to know, though she would not have dared to mention it in her classes, that human happiness, statistically, bears no essential relationship to freedom whatsoever, but is rather a function of doing what one feels like doing, with the reinforcement an...	10
13	121	But, alas, I cannot dance! I cannot even dance the social dances of Earth, let alone the dances of the displayed female slave.	10
13	551	Stripped of all conventional and social dignities and merits, as well as of their clothing, bereft of all artificialities, what is for sale there is, generally, assuming that there is nothing special about the item, that it is not the daughter of a Ubar, or the daughter of one's worst enemy, or such...	10
16	883	The destruction of nature and the ruin of human happiness presents an enormous challenge to social engineering, one to which a pathological society, by seizing control of education, the media, and such, must, if it is to be successful, address itself with courage and determination.	10
17	1191	Indeed, Ellen knew that, should historical conditions change on Earth, human slavery, with its various values, and its capacity to solve various social problems, might be reinstituted, might rise again.	10
22	140	In her academic work it was imperative that she deny such things, or dismiss them as unenlightened social artifacts, but, even then, she knew them to be pervasive amongst mammals, and, indeed, in one form or another, universal in human cultures.	10
22	149	In such a society, one might expect, accordingly, the pervasive dominance/submission ratios of nature to be recognized by, and reflected within, customs, laws, social arrangements, institutions, and such.	10
25	697	What can compare with it? Compliance with pathological politicized prescriptions, designed to promote the power of unscrupulous, self-seeking misfits? All the social engineering, all the establishments in charge of controlling minds, all the power of the media melt away before the sight of a slave a...	10
25	1115	Indeed, the average free woman of Earth would have very little understanding, at least initially, culturally, of the social station of a Gorean free woman.	10
26	1434	Too, she suspected that this man, her master, aside from social and institutional imperatives, literally, deeply, personally, for whatever reason, relished the owning of her.	10
30	33	Pity the putatively free women of Earth, she thought, in their deserts, cluttered with social artifacts largely constructed by the subglandular, pathological, effete, feeble and impotent, trying desperately, unhappily, to conform to orthodoxies imposed upon them, orthodoxies invented in effect by wi...	10
30	495	And what of the calculating free woman, as well, she, ensconced in veils and customs, despising men as weaklings, exploiting them, though sheltered and protected by them, viewing them as conveniences, as little more, at best, than sources of social and economic advantage, save, of course, for the gr...	10

Book 28. (13 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	1275	What might be the social relations in such a world, in such a small, stout, encircling, transparent world? And what might be the consequences to herself of these social relations? She became extremely frightened.	10
1	351	The second reason she was included in the container was doubtless to complicate the social interactions, so to speak, even to the point of hatred and anguish, in the small environment she shared with her fellow prisoners.	10
1	381	She had been taught that her femaleness was a matter of historical idiosyncrasy, a societal convention, a social construction, and one perhaps somewhat regrettable.	10
1	450	She was unfamiliar with larger animals who had been turned against themselves, who were hampered, crippled, neutralized and vitiated by the knives of social engineering.	10
1	523	They were taught, too, to see men as weaklings and inept adversaries, not surprising given the crippling social engineering to which most Earth males were subjected almost from the cradle, and not as their natural masters.	10
1	629	She was quite pleased with her social station and irritatingly vain concerning what she took to be, mistakenly, as it turned out, the excellence of her breeding.	10
1	1215	Such behaviors, though the brunette might not have cared to recall the point, given her class, her social background, the excellence of her education, the quality of her diction, and such, were common in the animal kingdom.	10
1	1274	She was a member of a miniscule social group, in a tiny, inescapable environment, subject to a technological ecology she was incapable of altering.	10
3	234	"I shall call you Tarl, as though we were better acquainted, and even of the same social class.	10
4	117	"Something appropriate," she said, "indeed, a wardrobe, casual wear, street wear, sports wear, perhaps even evening wear, such things, a wardrobe of high quality, one compatible with my social position.	10
29	125	It is a sophisticated, complex social institution, one which has characterized most of the world's great civilizations.	10
44	120	"It is not a sexual matter, but a social arrangement.	10
46	55	I have chosen the word 'queens' with some reluctance, as the social arrangements do not support the choice, but 'Ubaras' would be even more inappropriate.	10

Book 29. (12 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	192	It is difficult to convey the dignity, importance, and social standing of the Gorean free woman to one with no first-hand awareness of the matter.	10
3	30	It was less a social contretemps, it seemed, than an imposition, that she might be expected to work, at all.	10
4	390	Other situations are also regarded as ones in which the woman has voluntarily, or inadvertently, divested herself of the social and cultural mantles usually sufficient to protect her freedom and honor, such as walking the high bridges at night, undertaking dangerous expeditions or voyages, traversin...	10
9	44	The free woman was a person; the slave was a property, an animal, and an animal which, aside from matters of social advancement, position, wealth, and status, was commonly preferred a thousand times by men to a free woman.	10
9	84	Indeed, he had long looked upon her from afar, acutely, and poignantly, well aware of the chasms, social and commercial, which separated him from such a different and special creature.	10
15	304	Indeed, given the sexual desert from which most Earth slaves were extracted, and the mechanistic social ecology of that world, which alienated both men and women from their depth natures, Gor came to many as a welcome revelation.	10
20	147	Perhaps, in order to more successfully exploit him, she would attempt to enlist the social engineering to which he had been subjected on Earth, attempting to instill guilt in him, attempting to make him feel ashamed of the pleasure with which he, as a man, might now regard her, as a slave.	10
22	113	How could they, free women, hope to compete in interest with a slave? A slave, of course, came with no companion dowry, no land, no wealth, no social or mercantile connections, but men, nonetheless, somehow, enjoyed having them at their feet.	10
23	146	Too, apart from considerations of economic or social advancement, and such, clearly men prefer slaves.	10
26	37	As the projected social and economic losses he may have sustained by her flight will presumably far outweigh her value on a sales platform one may appreciate his likely disappointment, if not actual disgruntlement, consequent upon her untoward and unacceptable behavior.	10
26	246	Such concealments and stratagems have familiar social uses.	10
29	43	I sometimes sensed that social duels were in progress which were simply beyond my comprehension.	10

Book 30. (3 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	895	Many women, longing to be subdued, longing to submit, longing to be unqualifiedly possessed, longing to be owned, wholly and absolutely, find their social, biological, and cultural fulfillment in this, in thusly daring to reveal their deepest needs and desires to men.	10
3	1482	What woman would not wish to be excitingly garbed, to be not only permitted, but to have no choice but to publicly exhibit her beauty? What woman would not wish to escape the inhibitions, the social demands, the conventions and pressures, the robes, veils, and proprieties which so control and confin...	10
7	82	On the other hand, there might well be social, legal, and economic consequences if, say, A was to use the slave of B without B's authorization.	10

Book 31. (17 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	96	Examining our rooms in our absence, while we were in class, certain books had been discovered, literature certainly inappropriate for our prestigious house, one of the most exclusive and inaccessible on campus, and inappropriate, as well, for our small, expensive, illustrious, private institution, o...	10
4	104	We were not to date beneath our station, for, just as you have castes, we have social divisions which, in their way, are also strict.	10
4	106	Accordingly, our social activities, where the men, or boys, were concerned, were to be limited to a small set of men's clubs or fraternities, in their ranking comparable to ours.	10
4	112	To date one of us was a coup for the lucky fellow, and one of our common pleasures was to disdainfully refuse such dates, unless, of course, requested by young men whose wealth and social position was superior to ours.	10
4	128	Rawlinson, my sisters, others, think of me? Worse, I could be publicly humiliated, disdained, ostracized, and summarily expelled from the sorority, with all the devastating social consequences which that might entail.	10
5	51	Free women may view it as a badge of inferiority and degradation, and perhaps appropriately, from the social point of view.	10
7	723	This was not Earth, in which a battery of social and legal weaponry might be invoked against any fellow so unwary as to dare to look honestly, openly, frankly, naturally, on a woman.	10
8	223	In some sense this doubtless contributes to social stability, and, surely, it tends to make the average fellow content with his own person, profession, background, antecedents, and such.	10
8	1282	How, in her mind's eye, she must have smiled, considering the fate she was arranging for her lovely, vain, shallow, spoiled charges, the markets of Gor! In the beginning, we had looked down on her, she merely a house mother, an employee, a servant of sorts, far beneath us, a woman hired to manage th...	10
8	1465	Accordingly, in the social circles of an exclusive, prestigious institution, located high in the tiers of a subtly hierarchical society, one given to denying its hierarchicality, and are not all societies inevitably hierarchical, we, and others, competed for the attentions of promising young men.	10
8	1468	In this light, then, as suggested earlier, an expulsion from the sorority, with its shame, and such, would constitute a social calamity to be avoided at all costs.	10
8	1892	"What I have in mind is the nature of your social, economic, and political relationships to men".	10
10	263	It is probably difficult for one of my former world to understand the awesome dignity and importance, the social and cultural status, of the Gorean free woman, for she possesses a Home Stone, a status incomparably far above that of the usual free woman of my former world.	10
10	659	For all her petulance, pettiness, willfulness, vanity, and nastiness, she did not yet have the acculturated arrogance and sense of social power of the typical Gorean free woman.	10
10	1272	"I was well placed," I said, "and of high social station".	10
22	52	Many women of my old world would have scorned me for this, castigated me for being what I was, myself, would have insisted instead that I share their views and values, would have dictated to me, with terrible social and economic sanctions for noncompliance, would have demanded that I emulate them, a...	10
27	37	Occasionally, under certain circumstances, physiological or social, perhaps the lack of a Dominant, the Nondominant may occasionally become a Dominant, in effect, a true male.	10

Book 32. (2 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	18	Who are the social engineers? Who appoints them? What shall be engineered? Who reviews their work? Need anything be engineered? Why should anything be engineered? Who will engineer a flower, or truth? Whose fingers draw the secret strings? How gross, narrow, and transparently self-serving, are so ma...	10
5	209	On Gor, for example, as opposed to the social technologies of Earth, no point is served by blurring, identifying, diminishing, or repudiating sexualities.	10

Book 33. (4 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	362	It is difficult to convey to one unfamiliar with the cultural pertinences the social status of the Gorean free woman.	10
29	475	Had I detected a thrill of submission in those simple words? Had the radical sexual dimorphism of the human species suddenly become real to her? Did she understand it at last? Did she sense the possible fulfillments, and liberation, of the collar, the joy of a sensed, unalloyed, apprehended truth, a...	10
58	251	"Even in a time of madness, dissolution, the failure of discipline, of social and military chaos?" I said.	10
61	647	I suppose that it is difficult for one unfamiliar with Gorean culture to appreciate the social status of the Gorean free woman, at least in the high cities.	10

Book 34. (9 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	544	My tone would be pleasant and social, and betray no inkling of my distress.	10
2	72	"What would be the value or purpose of such a disclosure? How would it benefit either world? Would it not shatter comfortable visions, disrupt cultures, shake civilizations, alarm and unsettle populations, produce social, economic, and intellectual chaos? No, it is better for Gor to conceal itself, ...	10
8	50	Too, women such as I were not encased in proprieties and conventions, not hedged in by society, not permitted to hide ourselves behind veils, or within cumbersome robes, not permitted to bargain, to tease and taunt, to barter our favors for social or economic advancement.	10
31	79	The stoutest chains of her servitude would be legal, social, psychological, and cultural.	10
31	159	One can then well imagine how the woman is treated by one she would have, perhaps only days or weeks ago, regarded as a social inferior, one beneath her attention, once she is a slave.	10
34	79	From whence did they think came the humans of Gor, and their own ancestors, if not from the precincts of Earth at one time or another! And what of some Gorean beauties, slave-clad and in their collars, to whom they might point as excellent examples of their claim, the superiority of Gorean beauties ...	10
53	24	It might be mentioned, in passing, that the pomerium, as one would expect, given its legal status, is often attended by certain social and legal restrictions.	10
56	25	This is less because he might have his own slave, or slaves, in attendance, and more because he is well aware that the master's offer is likely to be little more than an exercise in etiquette, a mere concession to social proprieties.	10
61	54	Might he not endanger himself, his house, and his plans, if he trod blindly in the social and political darkness? Surely he was aware something was suddenly very different.	10

Book 35. (8 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	63	Is it so strange that a lightly-clad, collared, owned animal, sexual and beautiful, exciting and needful, her slave fires kindled by the will and doings of men, might be found, however undeservedly, of interest to men? What man would wish, save for social or economic advantage, to indefinitely pursu...	10
1	317	She comes to realize that she is not really a social artifact, but something real, a woman, and, as a woman, a profoundly sexual creature.	10
11	331	How was I so different from she? Take away her abundant, colorful, glorious robes and veils, every last stitch and thread of her clothing, and brand and collar her, and own her! Would we not then be the same, nothing, only slaves? Yet what a mighty social chasm now separated us, the oceans and conti...	10
14	85	Is the alternative not social anarchy, envy, jealousy, denial, uncertainty, confusion, competition, dishonesty, scrambling about, frustrated ambition, disappointment, fury, and chaos? "Adraste," I said.	10
19	17	A natural, unapologetic, unassuming, unquestioned, taken-for-granted, powerful virility is common with Gorean males, presumably a consequence of the culture, which does not set itself, for political or social reasons, to diminish, undermine, cripple, and poison what otherwise would be a flourishing ...	10
24	39	If they are permitted to speak, on the shelf, or, more significantly, in the holding areas, a social hierarchy soon materializes, with leaders, and, say, subordinates, lieutenants, so to speak, followed by followers in their rankings, and then followers with their followers, and so on, and then, eve...	10
24	40	Needless to say, barbarians are generally at the bottom of this social order.	10
33	219	"On this world," said the man in the bow of the boat, "there is a quaint social artifact, taken seriously be some.	10

Book 36. (2 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	26	Doubtless she was familiar with, accustomed to, and had profited from, the many advantages, preferences, preferments, and privileges, educational, economic, and social, which had been lavished upon her by her society.	10
46	88	"Some," I said, "the restless and discontented, the miserable and unhappy, those who fear nature and perhaps themselves, those who seek social, political, and economic power by pretending that nature does not exist".	10